The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-10-27
BILLNYk TAKES A HAND.
The Shnkespeare.''acon Puzzle Wrestlot
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The shnkespeare.i'acon Puzzle Wrestlot
! with COntclentiously.
Ees York World.
TluDting that 1t will not in any way i'm,
pair tho Balo Of Mr.. Donnelly's book, j
deslre 10 offer hero few wordu in favor
OF the theory that William Shakespeare
wrote bis own works and thought bis own
thinks. Tho time has fully arrived when
We humorlsts ought to stand by eech
other. u N n, f.fT
l do not undertake to atsnd up 70. the
peraorsl character OF Shakespeare, but
gay that he wrote good pieces and don't
care who knowa It. 1t 10 doubtless true
that a. the age Of Is he married woman
eight years his senior, and that children
began to clus.er about their hearthstone
In = way that would have mado a man In
a New York flat commit suicide. Three
little children within fourteen months,
including twinH, came to the humble
home oil the great bard, and be began to
go outand climbnponthe hay NOW to do his
writing. Sometimea he would alay away
from home Tor two or three weeks ut o
time, fearing that when he entered the
house some che would tell him that be
was egain q parent. ~. = 4, .lt5 b q,
Yet William Shakespeare knew nil the
time that he was q great man, and that
some day he would write pieces to speak.
He left Stafford ct the age OF q and went
to London, where no attracted very little
attention, for he belonged to the yeoman.
~, being kind Of dramatic Horace Gree.
Icy, both in the matter of clothes and
penmanship. Thuo 1t would seein that
while Sir Francis Bacon was attending q
business college and getting himself ia.
mili6r with the whole.arm movement 90
rs to be able to write free. cryptogram.
ors hand poor W. shakespeare was slowly
thinking the hair of bis head, while ever
and anon no would bring ont his writing
materials and his bright, ready tongue
and write comet Oh an empty etomach.
Prior to leaving s.ratford hs is said to
have dabbled in poaching business in an
humble way on this estates OF Sir Thomas
Lucy. since deceased, and he wrote. tho
following encomium, or odeiet, in free,
running hand and pinned it on the
knights gate: seq. i..l5ss.s
~ ~ s,l ", oeef In0MaS Lucy, tgtst-5ss4r
NE. Yourvenis0n's juicy, n
Juicy Is your venit0n: q. fI..S
- Hence 1append my benson.
The rose Is red, the violcG's blue, 10. y
The keepers ,hump and SO arc you, ~ rs
men ems why, remark and my language Is plain
IL, High Low Jack
Z, 600 !..,. And the Game.
Let me now once moro refer TO the
matter OF the signature. Much has been
said OF Mr.. Shakeapears's coarse. irregular
end vulger penmsnship, which, it is
claimed, shows the ignorance oiits owner,
and hence his inability to wits the i'm.
mortal plays. Let us compare the sigma.
lure Of Shakespeare with tha. Of ihfr.
Greeley, and we notice wonderful niul.
ilarlty.. There is tho Same weird effort il
Doth csses 70 cryptogram Old Cryptic.
sramus himself and enshrine immortal
thought and heaven-born genius in a
ouTglsr-proof paloply Of worn fences, and
a chirography that reminds tho careful
student Of the general direction taken In
returning to Round Knob, N. O., by a
correspondent who visited the home Of a
moonahiner with Wow towards, agcer.
tsinipg tho general tendency Of home.
bfewsd whisky to fly 10 the head, gEl 8
II We judge Shakespeare by his aigna.
.ure, nor one OF ia will bs safe, Death
will wipe out our fame with wet sponge
John Hancock in 100 years from now Viii
DO regarded al the author OF the DECLARE.
zion Of independence, and Com pendulum
Gsakell az the author Of the New York
Tribune, D. ~. s-,F1
J. have every resson to believe that while
William Shakespeare .Waa going about the
atreels OF London, poor but brainy, errstif
hnt smart, baldhehded bus Oiled With {
namelees yearning to write q plsy with
real water and q topical gong in it, Frauci,
Bacon WAS practicirg on bis signature, Get
ting usedto the iull-a,m movement. rpoil
ing sheet after sheet Of paper trying tt
nakea violet swan on red woven. wirt
Mattress Of shaded Hoops withopttsking biz
pen of tho paper and running the rebut
column OF busluess college paper. IL II
Poets are born, not made, and many O
them are born with odd and even disa
yleeable chErscterietics. Some men are
born poets, while it ia true that some &C
quire poetry while others haye poetry
thrust upon them. Poetry is lilo the feG
ulty, II ! may 60 denominate lit, Of helm,
able to voluntarily move tho ears. It is /
| gift. 1t cannot DO Taught to others. 93e3
So Shakespeare, with all his poor pen
uanship, with his proneness to poach
With his poverty and his neglect of BIZ
wife and children, could write pls,
wherein tho leading man and the. mai
Who played tho bass.drum in the orches
ira did not claim to have made tho princi
pal part. Y w Z r. b st,iigiIa5. 4
Shakespeare did not want bis plays pub
lished. He wanted to- keep them out O.
Tho prese iniordez to prevent their use al
spcllipg.schonls in the hands OF unakillet
arsiste, aud go there Yves o long period O.
time during which the papsrs: could moi
get hold Of them for publication. 81
RS During this time Francis Bacon Was ir
public lie He md Shakespeare had moth
ing in common. Both were great men
but Bscon's sphere! was different from
sbakaspears'H. Whils Bacon was in the
Senate, living high and courting inveHtiga,
ton, Shakespeare had to stuff three large
pillows into his panialoons and play Fal.
atsE at 8 one.night stand. : q la Y
lis likely that Bacon, breathing the
perfumed air Of the Capitol and chuckiup
the Treasury girls under the chin ever and
anon, hungered Tor the tslse Joys Of the
nnderpaid and UNDERSIGNED dramatist I
Scarcely. & s,f, A., n,
That is ore reason why i prefer 10 take
tho side .of Shakespeare rather than the
side Of Bacon. ~ \ : S.5i;--e!3. q
Mr., Donnelly's book shows keen re-
search, end preserves tho interest all the
way through, for the reader Ia impressed
nll along with the idea that there Is a her
on, II I may be permitted to coin phraae
but so fsr5 my lsympathies and kind re-
CARDS 60 with Shakespeare. II He was ono o
the yeoman Of sfatiord, and + his earl,
record wes against him, but where d.